Rawlings,
Henry Bernard Hughes (1889-1962)

Sir H.B. Rawlings participated in the evacuation
of Crete in 1941 and commanded Task
Force 57, the Britishcarrier
force that operated with the U.S.Pacific Fleet during the Okinawa
campaign. His task
force rendered invaluable
service suppressing Japanese
air power in Formosa
and the southern Ryukyus.
The armored flight
decks of the British carriers repeatedly
shrugged off kamikaze
hits that would have crippled
an American
carrier.